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Aydan

Gender
Boy
Say it
AY-dan
Origin
Irish
UK rank, 2025
#1,473 for boys
US rank, 2025
#1,852 for boys

Aydan is a boys' name of Irish origin, meaning “little fire”. In 2025 it ranked 1,473rd for boys in the UK (19 babies) and 1,852nd for boys in the US (85 babies).

What does Aydan mean?

Irish: spelling of Aidan; also a Turkish name

“little fire”

Is Aydan a girl's or a boy's name?

Aydan is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 19 boys in the UK and 85 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Aydan in the UK?

Rank in 2025
#1,473among boys
Babies in 2025
19about 1 in 16,000 boys
Five-year trend
Steadydown 18% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 19 boys in the UK were named Aydan, making it the 1,473rd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,105th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 33 boys.

Half of all the boys named Aydan in the UK since 1996 were born between 2007 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 908 boys in the UK were given Aydan or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #65, up from #1,473 for this spelling alone.

Among boys in 2025, it was 1,405th in England and Wales.

1996Busiest: 33 in 20212025
Aydan in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
202519#1,473
202415#1,745
202324#1,247
202222#1,312
202133#993
202027#1,105
201921#1,302
201823#1,243
201729#1,092
201622#1,309
201518#1,476
201419#1,406
201312#1,901
201218#1,478
201117#1,489
201023#1,206
200924#1,150
200824#1,129
200717#1,399
200613#1,558
200514#1,445
200412#1,494
200310#1,608
20029#1,594
20019#1,547
20009#1,503
19998#1,582
19988#1,569
199714#1,066
19968#1,506

How popular is Aydan in the US?

Rank in 2025
#1,852among boys
Babies in 2025
85about 1 in 20,000 boys
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 30% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 85 boys in the US were named Aydan, making it the 1,852nd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,335th. Its busiest year was 2008, with 454 boys. It first appears in the records in 1993.

It has been given to fewer boys each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had fewer boys named Aydan than any year since 2001.

Half of all the boys named Aydan in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 9,761 boys in the US were given Aydan or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #16, up from #1,852 for this spelling alone.

1993Busiest: 454 in 20082025
Aydan in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202585#1,852
2024106#1,608
2023114#1,539
2022149#1,284
2021147#1,291
2020134#1,335
2019162#1,186
2018142#1,291
2017172#1,116
2016203#1,006
2015214#966
2014239#898
2013253#844
2012337#705
2011346#682
2010380#636
2009399#626
2008454#570
2007414#608
2006429#577
2005331#652
2004306#666
2003243#740
2002123#1,152
200167#1,706
200056#1,871
199932#2,661
199828#2,848
199722#3,256
199621#3,287
199512#4,785
19945#8,794
19939#5,764

Names like Aydan

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Aydan

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Aydan: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/aydan, updated 20 October 2026.